FS#19864 - [linux-firmware] make part of the base group and an optdepend of kernel26/kernel26-lts
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Opened by Łukasz Fibinger (lucke) - Saturday, 19 June 2010, 17:07 GMT
Last edited by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Sunday, 11 July 2010, 10:38 GMT
Opened by Łukasz Fibinger (lucke) - Saturday, 19 June 2010, 17:07 GMT
Last edited by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Sunday, 11 July 2010, 10:38 GMT
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Some people would surely like to get rid of linux-firmware
if they don't need it. Wouldn't it be a better idea to make
it part of the base group, so everyone installing Arch would
have it anyway, instead of a hard dependency, which you
cannot really get rid of unless you -Rd it and stop updating
the kernel26/kernel26-lts packages?
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Closed by Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Sunday, 11 July 2010, 10:38 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Additional comments about closing: If you really don't want it, create an empty dummy package with
provides=('linux-firmware=99999999 9999999')
The dependency will stay.
Sunday, 11 July 2010, 10:38 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Additional comments about closing: If you really don't want it, create an empty dummy package with
provides=('linux-firmware=99999999 9999999')
The dependency will stay.
the plan is to reduce the number packages in the group even more,
when the installer will be improved to preselect the required packages automatically
(and when that happens - installer will be able to preselect linux-firmware automatically, when needed)
I only want to get rid of the hard dependency.
Changing this to optdepends means that someone who upgrades from an older installation will get a huge list of updates, with a very important package scrolling by as optdepend. The optdepend will be missed and will cause an unbootable system.